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4. IN COMBINATION, MEANS PROVIDING A SUPPLY OF DISPENSABLE CONVEYOR STRIP MATERIAL, MEANS FOR PERFORATING SAID STRIP AT REGULAR SPACED INTERVALS, MEANS FOR FORMING AT LEAST A PAIR OF TRANSVERSELY ALIGNED LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING SLITS IN SAID STRIP MATERIAL AT LOCATIONS THAT RECUR REGULARLY IN UNIFORM RELATIONSHIP TO SAID PERFORATIONS, CYCLICALLY OPERABLE MEANS FOR FORMINGH SUCCESSIVELY A SERIES OF HAIRPIN-SHAPED WIRE ELEMENTS EACH HAVING A PAIR OF LEGS AND A BOWED PORTION INTERCONNECTING SAID LEGS AND FOR INSERTING EACH OF SAID WIRE ELEMENTS SUCCESSIVELY INTO RESPECTIVE PAIRS OF SLITS IN THE STRIP MATERIAL WITH END PORTIONS OF THE WIRE ELEMENT PROJECTING FREE OF THE STRIP MATERIAL, MEANS FOR BENDING THE PAIR OF PROJECTING END PORTIONS OF EACH OF THE WIRE ELEMENTS CARRIED BY SAID STRIP MATERIAL TO FORM A PAIR OF CROSSED END PORTIONS, MEANS FOR INSERTING CERAMIC CONDENSER BODIES SUCCESSIVELY BETWEEN THE PAIRS OF CROSSED END PORTIONS OF RESPECTIVE WIRE ELEMENTS CARRIED BY THE STRIP MATERIAL, MEANS FOR SOLDERING INSERTED CONDENSER BODIES SUCCESSIVELY TO RESPECTIVE BENT END PORTIONS OF THE WIRE ELEMENTS ENGAGED THEREBY, AND FEED MEANS HAVING ELEMENTS COOPERATING WITH THE PERFORATIONS IN THE STRIP MATERIAL FOR FEEDING SAID STRIP MATERIAL FROM SAID SUPPLY MEANS STEPWISE ALONG A CONTINUOUS PATH THROUGH EACH OF THE OTHER AFORESAID MEANS IN THE ORDER NAMED, EACH OF THE AFORESAID MEANS BEING CYCLICALLY OPERABLE BY DRIVE MECHANISM THEREIN, AND SAID FEED MEANS INCLUDING MEANS TO ARREST THE STRIP MATERIAL DURING SUCCESSIVE DWELL PERIODS IN COORDINATION WITH THE DRIVE MECHANISMS OF SAID CYCLICALLY OPERABLE MEANS IN PRECISE POSITIONS ADJACENT TO THE OTHER AFORESAID MEANS CONCURRENTLY SO THAT THE SUCCESSIVE PAIRS OF SLITS AND THE SUCCESSION OF ELEMENTS RESPECTIVELY CARRIED THEREIN ARE IN POSITION FOR OPERATION THEREON BY SAID OTHER AFORESAID MEANS DURING THE SUCCESSIVE DWELL PERIODS. 